An soft error propagation analysis considering logical masking effect on re-convergent path

Abstract

This paper presents an accurate soft error propagation analysis technique. Especially, we focus on Single Event Upset (SEU) in flip-flop. The proposed technique can calculate the accurate error propagation probability considering logical masking on re-convergent paths with SAT solver efficiently. Experimental result shows that the proposed technique improves the computation time by 94.6% compared with the method with only SAT solver and the accuracy by 93.3% compared with the conventional method respectively.